Force script path with env var or cli argument?

schmidtw · October 6, 2020, 6:44am

I’m looking to do some larger scale changes to scripts locally & would like to be able to point the same version of qcad to different instances of my script directories.

It’s not completely clear how I should do this & the values that QT suggests are checked by default don’t seem to be.

AppDataLocation	"~/.local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/share/<APPNAME>"
AppLocalDataLocation	"~/.local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/share/<APPNAME>"

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Wes

schmidtw · October 8, 2020, 6:24pm

I did a fair bit of debugging and found that there are a few path searching blockers for being able to prefer one script tree over the built in version.

Here is my PR that fixes the issues I saw:

github.com/qcad/qcad

Improve the script path processing. (#26)

master ← schmidtw:fix-script-path-issues

opened 01:47AM - 08 Oct 20 UTC

schmidtw

+18 -3

This change adds the ability to point to a script file that includes other scri…pt files the same as the script library that comes with QCAD. The included files are included based on the following search order: 1. The initial script's path 2. The local script directory path (platform dependent) 3. The script directory next to the executable 4. The built in script files via a library To ensure consistency on possibly overwritten files in different locations, the list duplication removal function was replaced with a version that maintains the order of the list.